9/11

9/11

            Today we remember the horrible event that has happened on September 11 2001. On that day it had taken and even changed so many lives of families. The victims of the 9/11 weren’t only the people who died in that incident but also the families and those who helped clean the whole mess up. Now hundreds of fire men and people surrounding the building have either horrible lung problems or even lung cancer. 9/11 has not even affected us directly but made us more aware and scared or terrorist attacks. 

            When I was first saw the event on TV I was only 5 years old, my mom just brought me home from the kindergarten and my dad was watching the news. I remember him being depressed since he has lived in New York for about 40 years and it has become a second home to him. I didn’t think what it was serious, I thought it was a movie, or just some everyday news since back then I thought everything on the news was about destruction. Back then the only death I was in contact with was the death of birds. I had no idea that there actually could be an event that could have killed thousands of people. I remember these news being the only news they were showing 24/7. Since I was 5 years old and living in a complete other country I had no intention of doing anything or worry about that event.

            Later in life when I just entered 8^th grade I realized how important and horrible this event actually was.

            The good side is that since the 9/11 incident there was more security and everyone became more aware of terrorists. People starting taking security checks more seriously hence airports became safer. One the other things got more complicated in the airport with the passport checks and the nationality or the country you came from.

I don’t think anything has changed about preventing the terrorism. Because one of us can prevent something completely, there is always a percent that something can happen. The lesson that we should all learn from this is that we can’t take everything for granted and we should always keep in our mind that anything can happen at any moment.